This is rich! In a case freighted with major constitutional implications, a federal appeals court on Friday overturned President Obama’s controversial recess appointments from last year, ruling he abused his powers and acted when the Senate was not actually in a recess.

The three-judge panel’s ruling is a major blow to Mr. Obama. The judges ruled that the appointments he made to the National Labor Relations Board are illegal, and hence the five-person board did not have a quorum to operate.

But the ruling has even broader constitutional significance, with the judges arguing that the president’s recess appointment powers don’t apply to “intra-session” appointments — those made when Congress has left town for a few days or weeks. They said Mr. Obama erred when he said he could claim the power to determine when he could make appointments.

“Allowing the president to define the scope of his own appointments power would eviscerate the Constitution’s separation of powers,” the judges said in their opinion.

The judges said presidents’ recess powers only apply after Congress has adjourned a session permanently, which in modern times usually means only at the end of a year. If the ruling withstands Supreme Court scrutiny, it would dramatically constrain presidents in the future.

And the court ruled that the only vacancies that the president can use his powers on are ones that arise when the Senate is in one of those end-of-session breaks. That would all but eliminate the list of positions the president could fill with his recess powers.

It was an statement referring to another direct statement regarding gun control proposals ONLY, on a thread discussing Gun Control issues ONLY! It is limited to the previous Statement, not your imagination.

Max M. Haiflich, Jr.Free = no regulations = survival of the fittest = SomaliaSo in summation, the Conservative Republican’s Political Platform is, LIES, MORE LIES, OUTRAGIOUS LIES, and DAMN STUPID LIES, because we represent the word of GOD.

Am I the only one that finds it ironic that the right wingers keep screaming about President Obama threatening their rights under the Constitution but it was Bush who launched the Patriot Act that actually DID marginalize a number of constitutional rights. Every time one of them starts that B.S. I just have to chuckle. Bush lies and gets us into a war that kills 4000 of our service men and women and wounds God knows how many more, and they say nothing. Terrorists attack an embassy in Libya and 4 of our people die, which is, without a doubt a tragedy,, and the right wingers are screaming from the highest pulpits. The national deficit has been dropping every year since Obama has been in office after Bush ran up charges on the taxpayers credit cards like a shopaholic and the right wingers accuse HIM of being the big spender. The right wingers are making fools of themselves and don't even realize it when it is staring them in the face.

Lazersedge“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. ”― Niccolò Machiavelli

wafcon@charter.net wrote:Am I the only one that finds it ironic that the right wingers keep screaming about President Obama threatening their rights under the Constitution but it was Bush who launched the Patriot Act that actually DID marginalize a number of constitutional rights. Every time one of them starts that B.S. I just have to chuckle. Bush lies and gets us into a war that kills 4000 of our service men and women and wounds God knows how many more, and they say nothing. Terrorists attack an embassy in Libya and 4 of our people die, which is, without a doubt a tragedy,, and the right wingers are screaming from the highest pulpits. The national deficit has been dropping every year since Obama has been in office after Bush ran up charges on the taxpayers credit cards like a shopaholic and the right wingers accuse HIM of being the big spender. The right wingers are making fools of themselves and don't even realize it when it is staring them in the face.

Unfortunately, for them, it is also staring them in the ballot box.

"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." - Thomas Paine